In keeping with the event’s college football tailgating theme, televisions throughout the site will carry the Auburn-Ole Miss game from Oxford, Miss., and the Alabama-Missouri game from Columbia, Mo.

Along with the Thighsman Trophy, which will go to the team whose wings the judges deem the best in Birmingham, the other categories include Best Kick'n Hot Chick'n, Best Kick'n Alternative Chick'n, and the Best Finger Lick'n Chick'n People’s Choice Award.

The Shake Your Tailfeather Award will go to the team with the best-dressed booth, and the Raise the Bar Award will go to the team that raises the most money for Magic Moment’s, the event’s designated charity.

DETAILS

What: Kick'n Chick'n Wing Fest

Where: 29th Avenue, Homewood

When:11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday

According to Kassady Gibson, co-chair of the event, last year’s Kick’n Chick’n Wing Fest raised about $20,000 for Magic Moments, which grants wishes for chronically ill Alabama children. About 2,500 people attended the 2011 festival.

The judges this year include John Bryan Hopkins of @Foodimentary, Todd Coder of TicketBiscuit, Rick Journey of Rick Journey 360, Jason Horn of liquor.com, David Barry of Zeekee Interactive, Carla Jean Whitley of Birmingham Magazine, Richard Dixon of 100 WAPI-FM, and Josh Acker, the “Average Joe” judge. The judging starts at noon, and the winners will be announced at 4 p.m.

Advance tickets to the Kick’n Chick’n Wing Fest are available for $10 through midnight Friday at www.bhamwingfest.com.tickets. Tickets will be $15 at the gate, and children 10 and under get in free.

Ticket holders will receive vouchers good for five wings, and additional vouchers and drink tickets will be on sale at the event. The participating teams will stop serving wings at 3 p.m.

Also, 12 festival-goers will compete in the Yuengling Wing-Eating Contest to see who can eat the most wings in a five-minute span. Ten of those contestants will be chosen in a random drawing, and tickets to enter the drawing are $10. The remaining spots will be filled by the two highest bidders in a live auction that takes place 30 minutes before the contest begins at 1:30 p.m. Last year’s top wing-eater wolfed down 2½ pounds of wings in the allotted five minutes.